6th - 12th Grade Agriscience:
Agricultural Careers

GENERAL AGRICULTURAL CAREERS

Agritourism: Extreme Farm Makeover: Through project-based learning, students will work in groups to design an agritourism experience that will increase profits for a family-owned farm and provide agricultural literacy opportunities for community members.

AgVenture: Sourcing Ag Careers: Students consider the scope of agriculture and how it is the source of most of our day-to-day necessities in preparation to explore the five agricultural career pathways.

Career Gaming: Through project-based learning, students will design games that will assist others with identifying a variety of agricultural careers, possible emerging agricultural careers, the education required for agricultural career options and the types of salaries that can be expected in each career.

Career Trek: Students will explore careers in the fields of agriculture and natural resources through online research. They will check their understanding by playing Career Trek—a board game that requires students to identify careers in agriculture and natural resources.

Charting Agricultural Careers: Students will use infographics and charts to explore the careers that produce food, clothing, shelter and fuel along with a variety of agricultural STEM careers requiring critical thinkers and problem solvers.

DNA: Expressions in Agriculture: This lesson centers around the activity of extracting DNA from a strawberry while highlighting careers in biotechnology and agriculture.

Enlightened Concessions: Through project-based learning, students conduct surveys with their peers at school about healthy food products they think will be marketable for school concessions. Based on surveys and research, they choose an in-demand product to test in class and then present to a guest panel as a healthy choice.

Find Your Future Career (Grades 6-8): Students will discover the variety of agricultural careers available and consider their career paths in terms of economics, interests and suitability to their personal talents and characteristics.

Find Your Future Career (Grades 9-12): Students will discover the variety of agricultural careers available and consider their future career paths in terms of economics, interests and suitability to their personal talents and characteristics.

Journey 2050 Lesson 6: Careers (Grades 6-8): Students will explore careers related to agriculture, identify personal interests within agriculture or a related field, and discuss how agricultural professionals can impact world food.

Journey 2050 Lesson 6: Careers (Grades 9-12): Students will explore careers related to agriculture, identify personal interests within agriculture or a related field, and discuss how agricultural professionals can impact world food.

Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology and Innovations (Grades 6-8): Students will explore new technologies that will impact the future of farming, understand the role of developing countries in food security and explain how consumers influence the production of food.

Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology and Innovations (Grades 9-12): Students will explore new technologies that will impact the future of farming, understand the role of developing countries in food security and explain how consumers influence the production of food.

AGRONOMY

Serious Cereal Science: Students will develop an appreciation for the extensive materials and career fields provided by agriculture, specifically as related to cereal grain production, processing and consumption. Activities include playing a game in which students become agronomy specialists, mapping the top grain-producing states and watching videos about careers related to grain production.

ANIMAL SCIENCE

The Remarkable Ruminant: In this lesson, students will follow the farm-to-fork process of producing beef, learn how cattle and other ruminants convert grass into nutrient-rich foods such as milk and meat, discover ways cattle recycle food waste, and identify careers in the beef cattle industry.

BIOFUEL

Fueling Up for a Career in Biofuel: Students will recognize the importance of fuel energy and the fact that agriculture can produce biofuel, and students will identify career opportunities in the biofuel industry.

Grow it Now, Drive it Later?: Students will discover potential careers in agriculture with a focus on the growing field of biofuel development.

FOOD SCIENCE
Cheesemaking: A Science, an Art, and a Craft: Students make fresh mozzarella cheese and explore a career as an artisan cheesemaker as they discover the science, art, and craft involved in the development of specialty cheeses.

Cruisin' for a Bruisin' Food Packaging Specialist: In this lesson, students will learn that product packaging is a balance between function, food safety and economics by designing a protective package for shipping perishable fruit. Each package will be presented to the class for evaluation, and the best design will be shipped to test the product's durability.

Culinary Concepts: Through project-based learning, students will develop and manufacture a unique and nutritious food product that includes ingredients that have been sourced locally and can be served in retail outlets or the school cafeteria.

Energy Bar Exploration: Through project-based learning, students will develop, market and brand a healthy energy bar and packaging to be sold to a target audience.

Food Safety Sleuths—Food Safety Specialist: In this lesson, students will learn about foodborne illness, its prevention, and the people and organizations that are involved in food safety. Students will conduct an experiment to learn how hand-washing affects the presence of bacteria on their hands.

Food Scientist for a Day: Students focus on the science involved in the production of our food and explore the high-tech aspects of agricultural production as they learn about careers in food science.

Mix It Up! Food Scientist: In this lesson, students will model the responsibilities of a food scientist by working in product development teams to create a new food product. Tasks will involve market analysis, economics, food chemistry and safety, graphic design, and communication.

GENERAL SCIENCE CAREERS

NATURAL RESOURCES

Planet Zorcon: Students will explore the connection between individual behavior and resource use, learn the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources, and identify careers related to natural resource management by playing an active, futuristic game in which teams have to collect limited resources from Planet Zorcon.

TECHNOLOGY

GPS and GIS Technology in Agriculture: Students will explore technical careers in agriculture and learn how GPS and GIS technologies are used to improve agricultural production.

Science You Can Eat: Students explore the scientific processes used to make the crops we grow and the livestock we raise (commodities) into some of the foods we eat every day. Students will discover how science and technology work together to create foods like pickles, bread, yogurt and more! To engage further in the topic, students will make their own cheese using enzymes produced through the fermentation of genetically engineered yeast.

6th - 12th Grade Agriscience:Agricultural Careers

6th - 12th Grade Agriscience:
Agricultural Careers